Epilogue

"Aw, Daddy! Do I hafta go to church! It's so boring!" The young boy with the rusty hair complained. Allen laughed and shook his head.

"Nah… You don't have to go. But didn't you promise to meet Liza after church, Neah?"

"Yeah… But her brother is always there! He's a stupid jerk! He asked Road why she has such a weird name and made her cry! Jerk!"

"Did he now! Ahhh… That sort of sounds like something he'd say. Next time he asks, tell him she was named after a war hero. She betrayed her own family, and in doing so, saved the world…"

Road, and Mana looked up at Allen, Mana looking skeptical, and Road looking fascinated.

"Really!" Road asked, her golden eyes sparkling with excitement. "What did she look like! Was she really strong and powerful!"

"Well, I'm sure that if you asked Lavi, he could find a picture of her for you. You see, she isn't in any book you'll ever find…"

"What are you telling your kids, now, Beansprout!" Lavi asked with a wide smirk and a laugh.

"I was telling them about Road, and how she got her name."

"Ah. Well, she was bound to ask eventually, I suppose. Here, I think I still carry that old file with me… Just cuz it's kinda' nostalgic, y'know?"

Lavi dug around in his coat and pulled out a crumpled folder, straightening it out and taking out the right picture.

"Here ya' go, squirt!" Lavi said, handing Road the picture. Neah and Mana gathered around and looked at her.

"Wow. So Dad wasn't bullshitting us after all! Damn… She was pretty hot…" Mana said. Lenalee looked down at him reproachfully, but Allen merely laughed at this.

"I suppose she was."

"What was she when this picture was taken? Fourteen? Fifteen?"

"5,000… Give or take a few hundred years…" Allen said completely seriously.

"Yeah, Dad… Seriously…" Neah said, looking up at him.

"Let's just say fourteen, then… Leave it at that?" Allen said, laughing sheepishly. After a few more moments, a small, red haired, bespectacled girl stepped out from behind Lou Fa, blushing slightly.

"H-hi, Neah-kun…" She muttered, walking over to him and smiling demurely.

"Hi, Liza-chan…" Neah replied with his usual confident grin. His hair was jet black, and his skin was of a dusky hue, although Allen and Lenalee claimed that they couldn't quite figure out which parent he took after. They knew, though. They knew that Neah Walker didn't let his influence die out so easily. And neither did Road Kamelot. The Noah family was not so easy to get rid of.

The four parents smiled though at the young couple, remembering what it had been like when they were young… How different the world had been… How frightening… How dark... How full of despair… And yet, like Pandora's box, the last thing to come out of that debacle was hope. And with hope, it was transformed into a wonderful place…

"Hey! Get your damn hands off my sister, you fucking squid!" Came an obnoxious voice, and Allen's mind came back and he noticed that Neah was being chased by Lee, Liza's older brother. After a moment, Neah stopped, though, and got into a stance that Allen knew only too well. Only his quick intervention saved Lee a trip to the hospital.

"Neah! What have I told you about using that!"

"Never use it unless I'm about to die…"

"Good… Now, apologize to Lee…"

"Sorry…" Neah said grudgingly, holding out his hand to shake Lee's. Lee looked down at Neah with his usual superior smirk, and took Neah's hand. As soon as he did, though, there was a flash and a bang, and Lee was 5 feet away, his whole body twitching, and his hair standing on end.

"Ahahahahahaaa! Take that, retard!" Neah yelled, giving Lee the finger. Lou Fa merely laughed nervously, and took off her glasses, polishing them.

"I am really sorry about that, Lavi… Lou Fa…" Lenalee said, bowing politely.

"Nah! Don't worry about it! It's just a little bit of static, right? The kid'll be fine."

… Well, relatively speaking…

The End

A/N: If you're reading this note, then thank you. You read my whole story. It took a long time… and I hit a lot of stumbling blocks… But I think I managed okay. Yeah, I know the ending is a little similar to some of my other stories, but to be honest, it's because I feel that Mana, Road, and Neah are the only appropriate names for Allen and Lenalee's children, given the story that preceded it. I'm open to other suggestions, as long as they aren't flames.